Gary Gannon, Social Democrats Councillor based in Dublin's Inner City, talks about the fallout from the collapse of the trial of Patrick Hutch for the murder of David Byrne in Dublin's North Inner City.

Drivetime's Della Kilroy speaks to two fathers about their experience in the Family Court System, and Keith Walsh, solicitor specialising in family law and Chair of the Law Society's Family Law Committee, talks to Mary about how fathers are not protected within the family law system.

Kate McGrew, Sex Worker and Co-Ordinator of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, and Lucy Smyth, Founder of Ugly Mugs, an app used by sex workers to review clients and to warn of dangerous clients, talks about how Google is putting them at risk by blocking key functions on the Ugly Mugs app.

Francis Rocca, Vatican Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, and Maeve Lewis, Executive Director of the Abuse Survivors Support Group of One in Four, discusses the Vatican Summit on sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

Shane Ross, Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport, responds to John Cooke's series of reports on the introduction of tougher drink driving penalties and the reaction to the penalties in rural Ireland. Padraig Cribben, Chief Executive of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, discusses VFI's new campaign to prevent drink driving.…

Dr. Catherine Cox, Associate Professor at the UCD School of History, discusses a new exhibition that has opened in Kilmainham Jail this week, recalling the experiences and observations of those who worked in Irish prisons in the second half of the Twentieth Century.

Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and President of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, discusses sexual abuse within the catholic church ahead of a four-day conference taking place in the Vatican on Thursday on the issue of sexual abuse.

Mark Paul, Irish Times reporter, and Billy Kelleher, Fianna Fail TD for Cork North Central, discuss former legal adviser to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, Kevin O'Connell's request to speak at the Oireachtas Business Committee.

Ciara Clancy, Founder of Beats Medical, reacts to the news that she has been named as one of Forbes magazine's '30 Under 30', an annual list of 30 people under 30 in different fields that Forbes think might feature on their Rich List in the future.

Drivetime's Della Kilroy reports an appeal from the Tuam Home Survivors' Network for the Government to arrange for DNA samples to be collected from them to determine if they matched the human remains discovered at the site.

Drivetime's Barry Lenihan reports on the news that the Cervical Check screening programme is grappling with a backlog of almost eighty thousand slides, and Donal Buggy, Irish Cancer Society, discusses impact the backlog may have on women's health across Ireland.

Drivetime's Barry Lenihan reports on past political apologies and Kevin Doyle, Group Political Editor for Independent News and Media, discusses Health Minister Simon Harris's apology in the Dáil in relation to the cost of the National Children's Hospital.

David Coleman, Managing Partner at Coleman Legal Partners, talks about the review into historical sexual abuse at Scouting Ireland which has so far identified 313 alleged victims, and 237 alleged abusers.

Stephen Donnelly, Fianna Fail's Health Spokesman, and Alan Kelly, Labour's Health Spokesman, discuss Simon Harris's apology apology to the Dáil for an answer he gave last year to a question about the National Children's Hospital project.

Dr. Stuart Neilson, statistican, and creator of 'Creating Autism', a new exhibition looking at the processes that shape autistic identity talks about the exhibition which will be running in St. Peter's Cork until February 27th.

Orla O'Donnell, Legal Affairs Correspondent, reports from the High Court where businessman Denis O'Brien was being cross examined in his defamation case against the Sunday Business Post.

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